Martha Rosler quotes
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“Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?”
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“So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s different; it’s important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present.”
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“I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.”
-- Martha Rosler#Subjectivity Quotes #Transformation Quotes #Language Quotes
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“Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.”
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“Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.”
-- Martha RoslerSource : Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.262, MIT Press
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“Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)”
-- Martha RoslerSource : Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.179, MIT Press
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“How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?”
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“The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.”
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“Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?”
-- Martha RoslerSource : Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.270, MIT Press
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“The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism.”
-- Martha RoslerSource : Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.178, MIT Press
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“Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.”
-- Martha Rosler
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